
14 October 2025 by Martin Cole
Are you Black Friday ready?
This Black Friday, keep your e-commerce sites running smoothly with this practical checklist for developers
From startups to sizeable enterprises, we’ll actively ensure your eCommerce site has warp speed page load times. Avoid abandoned shopping carts and enjoy more conversions and search engine kudos. Plus, we’ll look after you and your data round the clock.

Magento
The premier league of eCommerce platforms, suited to bigger stores. We’ve got the eCommerce hosting expertise to get the best performance out of it

Woo (WooCommerce)
A popular choice that’s perfect for small and large stores alike. A neat plugin that transforms your WordPress site into a fully-fledged eCommerce one

PrestaShop
A firm favourite for hundreds of thousands of stores due to its unique customisation tools and lightweight engine.

osCommerce
The patriarch of engines with a huge fan-base of developers and users, it’s easy to use and super lightweight.
Our datacentre and network platform is engineered from the ground up to provide reliability and performance.
Race track ready
We’re masters of speed so we’ll make sure your eCommerce site goes sonic. With our TTFB-optimised software stack you’ll see fewer abandoned shopping carts, which means more converted sales.
Caching in
We offer support for NGINX, Redis and Varnish which means lightning fast load times so your customers are never stuck waiting.
Braced for traffic
As part of our eCommerce hosting packages, we carry out rigorous performance testing on your most intensive pages so you can carry on with the mid-season sales. We’ll prove it by sharing the before/after results.
One flat price
We don’t charge per request, so bandwidth is billed predictably. A Black Friday traffic spike means more sales – not a surprise hosting bill.
Crowd capacity
Knowing how your site will handle a sale stampede will help you to decide when and if you need to scale up capacity. Prostack offer simulated high traffic testing so you’ll always be prepared.
Peace of mind
Monarx Active Protection is a proactive beast of a security system. It can catch hacks before they’ve had a chance to do any damage and offers protection to stop them happening in the first place.
If you take card payments, the platform underneath your store is part of your compliance scope. We make that part of it straightforward.
PCI compliant hosting
We partner with HackerGuardian to offer PCI compliant hosting, so the platform your store runs on is built to meet the standard rather than retrofitted to it.
Hardened environments
Every environment is hardened and secured as standard. We lock things down from the outset instead of bolting it on when an assessment date appears in the diary.
Help with the paperwork
We can advise on your PCI compliance reports as needed – including working alongside a third party QSA if that is who is carrying out your assessment.
You wouldn’t put diesel in a space shuttle. If your business is taking off, it deserves to be super fast and super secure so let us provide the rocket fuel.
Prostack will work with you directly to understand your business requirements so we can offer a personalised solution tailored to your needs.
As part of our eCommerce hosting packages, we vigilantly patrol your site with a range of scanning tools to make sure we’re one step ahead of threats and hackers. And we’re constantly working on the latest certifications so you can sit back and rest easy knowing we’ve got your back.
We’re all about security. We offer full cloud encryption of databases and file systems as well as proactive protection against website attacks. Keeping up to date to make sure your customers are safe and sound.
We do. We partner with HackerGuardian to offer PCI compliant hosting, and every environment we build is hardened and secured as standard. If you need to produce PCI compliance reports we can advise on those too – including working alongside a third party QSA if that’s who is carrying out your assessment.
You betcha. We conduct rigorous performance and capacity testing to make sure there’s no slow down when your visitors speed up.
We use state-of-the-art monitoring and alert systems so our ‘always on’ team can work to remedy the fault round the clock.
To make sure your store’s data is copied up-to-the-minute and there’s no doubling up of orders, we place your site into maintenance mode. This allows your customers to continue browsing whilst we speedily perform your migration.
No one likes to be kept waiting so it could be down to page loading time. Prostack knows how to expertly optimise your site to make it faster so you can see a boost in sales.

Refresh Cartridges have been running their reputable eCommerce store for an amazing 17 years and they handle hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month. Their online business has grown considerably so they needed someone to help them get the best out of their osCommerce site and expertly manage, secure and monitor their high-volume traffic.
Prostack migrated the site quickly to a scalable Cloud server and provided a performance tuned stack with a low TTFB. We also made sure the system was safe and sound with Monarx Active Protection and added a backup process to keep their booming business on the move.
Our experts are ready and waiting to chat through our most suitable eCommerce hosting options.